The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-01
STOCK BREEDING.
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Simply feeding an animal without some
| definite object IN view is to waste the food
| or else deprive the animal of something it
may require unless the farmer knows the
| quality of the food given and the nutritive
| value of the ingredients of which it is COM
! posed. SO important is a knowledge of
| the proper mode of feeding that 1t is often
possible to produce a more perfect animal
| from grade than from n thoroughbred,
| and Darwin expresses the opinion that the
| quality of the food influences variation in
| animals, and that when improvement is at
| tempted by judicious breeding the result is
largely influenced by the mode and periods
| of feeding, as also by the quality and kinds
| of food used.
A normal condition cannot be sustained
| in an animal except by mixed diet. No
| single article of food used for domestic
animals can be regarded as complete or
containing the proper proportions of the
necessary elements of growth and warmth.
| Certain foods, rich in nitrogen, are re-
CURED for producing flesh. These foods
are known as "fiesh- formers" and are de-
| rived from the gluten of grains, the
legumen of clover and from the different
| forms of nitrogen in all the plants used as
| food, being transformed III the body of the
| animal into flesh and TO supply the natural
| waste of the muscles and cartilages, the
surplus being impaired to the products of
| the animal, as casein in milk or albumen in
eggs from birds.
A proper division and classification of
| the foods enables the farmer to appropri-
ate the elements particularly adapted for
the accomplishment of the production of
| flesh, milk butter, or fat, for while the or
ganic matter Astounding in nitrogen is
more suitable for flesh forming, that por-
| ton free from nitrogen, known as carbo-
hydrates, contain starch, sugar, and fatty
| oils, in order 10 supply the fatty matter,
| while the earthly phosphates repair and re-
| new the bones.
AS the constituents OF an animals body
must come from the food, it is not best to
| feed the starchy substances TO young
| animals exclusively when growth is de-
| sired, which explains the cause of lack of
| thrift when straw or coarse hay is used, az
| the animal cannot eat enough of such sub
| stances in order TO supply itself. Nor can
We expect the best results from such grains
| as corn, which contains large proportion
| of starch and oil with a small amount of
| flesh forming material, but when corn is
| combined with clover hay the elements are
| more evenly divided, yet even in the COM
| binatlon of the two foods time would show
| that some element might be lacking, and q
| change of food would be necessary.
III is more ecOnOulchl 10 1eed variety,
| especially to growing stock, which demand
more nitrogen and the phosphates than do
those more matured as the first must not
| only renew waste but add TO the flesh and
| bone, while the adult is required only to
| renew waste. An adult animal, therefore,
voids the excess of heterogeneous material,
and as q consequence the manure from q
| mature animal is more valuable than that
| from one which has not completed growth.
| An adult animal also fattens at less cost;
| therefore, as but small proportion of
nitrogen is required, the mode of feeding
| depends upon the age and the objects de-
sired TO be obtained. Phitadeiphja Rec
| ord.